"We are often more afraid than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

"The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like him who did the injury."

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."